Rapamycin for Hair Growth and Hair Pigmentation. A topic started by RapAdmin – December 2021
Here we are 4 ½ years later and 605 posts/replies. Heck, I contributed 121 posts to the topic alone – nobody could be more invested in hair regrowth than me, wanting to figure out an answer to regrowth of lost hair and improve the thickness. My youthful passion – long before longevity became my new hobby. So, if thanks to Rapamycin, TRT, HGH and Descovy – I am going to live an additional 20-25 years; then, I want those extra years with a nice thick, crop of hair. Right?!?
Look good and feel good. As mentioned, I started my hair loss prevention decades ago with Proscar/finasteride at the age of 33 years. It helped stabilize my hair, but at 68 years old – hair loss is finally catching up with me. Yep, the comb over works pretty well – until the wind blows. Then it sucks.
Guys, it’s been way too long trying stuff… chasing new fads, spending cash only to be disappointed. It is time to face the facts. Everything on this topic is not working to get that head of hair back. Simply… stated it’s just not working!
Sure, I have seen brief successes followed by equally profound setbacks – all the way to the starting point or sometimes even less. It’s disappointing as hell to say the least. DAMN!! So desperate, even watched the hair pieces videos on YouTube … those rugs are a lot of work – all that taping, glue-ing… cleaning… can look amazing… but in the end it’s a lie. And you can tell they aren’t real if you look very close. Hair by its nature changes daily… wigs do not change. I think maybe great if you have alopecia or hair loss from cancer treatments maybe… but it’s just not for me.
But hold on… it isn’t hopeless. That’s right, the hair game is not game over at 60, just needed to review all the facts at hand. If what you are doing isn’t working, then it is time to go in a completely new direction. And finally, yes finally… I have hit permanent success! It’s really growing… it’s mine and its thick.
The problem was partially not seeing the reality of the only 3 Steps to keeping and having a full head hair. Doing some things did help me – definitely slowed my hair loss progression, but never got a real payoff for all the effort. Hair Loss Treatment restoration uses a three- step/pillar strategy: prevention to stop loss, stimulation to awaken dormant follicles, and augmentation (transplants) for permanent filling. Combining these 3 methods is the standard for long-term density and coverage.
Here is an informative video that discusses this 3-Pillar/Step strategy.
How To Reverse YOUR Hair Loss - Doctor Gary Linkov Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwL1yS5Su5U&t=434s
I have watched lots of Dr. Linkov’s hair transplant vids/podcasts online before doing my own research and finding the perfect hair transplant surgeon. I saw all the mistakes, disappointments from the cheap costs clinics. You cover flight and treatment in Turkey, Asia and UK travel hair transplant and get a variety of results. Saw dozens of “start-to-finish” videos.
I didn’t want to travel to Turkey. Where I don’t speak the language for a procedure done like a factory, in a sketchy – iffy clinic, and then travel home.
Due diligence pays off… I found that indeed you can do a hair transplant here in the USA, with the best hair surgeon and transplant team at basically the same costs. Only here you have USA medical standards protection. Interested? More of that at the end of this post.
The 3 Steps are:
Prevention – Stopping the hair loss. Maintaining what you had in the 20’s and stopping the slow creep of hair loss.
There are only two things that actually work in prevention. I was fortunate to be an early adopter 35 years ago of using oral Proscar (finasteride) when I hit 33 years and first began seeing obvious hair loss. No doubt finasteride is the main reason I have maintained a pretty thick supply of hair to date. Kept me at my 33-year-old hair look. Today we know for a fact that finasteride blocks DHT and helps keep the hair you have. Dutasteride is maybe even a bit better for some, but same principle – block DHT and keep your existing hair – preventing or slowing additional loss. I am considering switching to dutasteride at my next physician visit in August. You can use a topical, but tbh oral 2-5 mg daily is more efficient.
The other prevention medication that I actually learned about on rapamycin.news is oral minoxidil. I started taking oral minoxidil about 2 years ago. Minoxidil opens up the blood flow that the hair needs to stay thick and healthy. Again, you can use a topical, but oral 5 mg daily is more efficient. You may get some regrowth (nothing too crazy), but healthier hair. That’s it… keep what you have, maybe… maybe get a bit back – but don’t expect a return of your thick youthful hair. Stopping the loss progression is a foundation to getting your youthful hair back – stop the thinning.
Stimulation is the next step. Once you have stalled the loss and what you have is healthy and thriving. You move to stimulation. Stimulation treatments work by improving scalp blood flow, extending the hair’s growth phase (anagen), and increasing the thickness of existing hair strands.
Regenerative Procedures: Treatments like Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) utilize growth factors from your own blood to revitalize dormant follicles. Scalp Microneedling: Creates controlled micro-injuries in the scalp that activate healing responses and boost growth factor pathways. Light & Energy Therapies: Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) uses red light wavelengths (650-655 nm) to stimulate cellular metabolism and encourage hair regrowth. Devices like the NOOĀNCE Hair Helmet offer targeted, at-home light stimulation. FoLix laser by Lumenis.
Topical Treatments: Over-the-counter Minoxidil (available as foam or 5% solution) is a potassium channel opener that delivers vital oxygen and nutrients to follicles.
1% AHK-Cu Treatment Spray Tricomin topical. 1% Copper Tripeptide Complex delivers essential micronutrients to promote scalp wellness and address visible thinning. Stimulation treatments work by improving scalp blood flow, extending the hair’s growth phase (anagen), and increasing the thickness of existing hair strands.
However, stimulation will not grow new hair despite all the products and hype. You can pretty much skip Stimulation – as it doesn’t work… and just do do Prevention and Augmentation.
Augmentation – hair transplants (Restoring Density) When follicles have miniaturized completely and bald spots have formed; non-surgical treatments (stimulation) cannot create new follicles. You are not getting more or thicker. Augmentation i.e. transplanted hair restores actual hair counts. You are getting thick, healthy hair back where it has vanished.
Hair Transplants: Procedures like Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) transplanting individual hairs, or Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) – taking a strip off the back (more invasive) – move healthy, DHT-resistant hair follicles from the back of the scalp to thinning or bald areas.
For me, due to a shorter recovery time 2-days and within a week being back to normal at work no evidence of the procedure at all… I choose FUE - Follicular Unit Extraction taking individual hairs from the back of head. These back head hairs are DHT resistant hairs and can be moved to the areas that DHT has compromised hair or already had permanent hair loss.
I am so done with all the red (hairings) herrings… or hunting the holy grail of hair restoration snake oil – stimulation stuff.
If you want to get the FUE procedure done here in the USA for $6,000 – $7,000 – cost depends on the hair count you need. I had 1,200 graphs at $6,500. That is a comparable cost to a round-trip flight and treatment in Turkey – where you take more time and more risks.
Personally, I want as my hair surgeon – an experienced, proven American physician with 20 years of hair transplant surgeries and the same 15-year team helping. Skilled, fast and excellent results. Interested in checking it out? Private Message me and I will share my surgeon’s contact clinic – just like I have done with HGH sources and other tips over the years.
Now, on to my FUE procedure pics!
Me the day before my FUE hair surgery. Hair is a hot mess!
Me today at 4 months & 10 days.
The day after FUE surgery.
10 days post FUE surgery.
All that hair falls out… the follicles go into dormancy from shock… then magically start growing out at 3 months.
Very happy with it all. Fantastic. I will update with pics every month… next pics at 5 months.
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